Nice update. Thanks for sharing your background with us. You certainly have enjoyed a varied professional career. WOW! Love the Apollo video at the end. GREAT WORK!
All those years and yet I still love to look at you working on your trees and explaining each step. Keep continuing Nigel, what a great collection you've got Sir!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone : Hi Nigel, would you be able to share a link to the book in case any of us want to purchase? Your work on that was amazing!
My wife and I remember the Apollo missions. We sat here mesmerized by your little graphic production you shared. So lifelike, flawlessly smooth. Your work experience shows in your work. Whether it's the bonsai trees, the community garden, or the plant room. You're using your knowledge in a quiet, almost humble way. Keep teaching us, your students.
Thanks R man, glad you liked the animations! The models were rendered and used in a 50th anniversary Apollo 11 book! My dad worked on a small piece for the Lunar Module, so as a kid I got to read all kinds of trade magazines that were just full of Apollo technical stuff! It was a moon landing crazy world back then that involved so many people. I can see that unless you grew up in that era, no one would believe how it was all accomplished.
CG artist here, the video at the end is really well done! also wanted to say, your channel is very inspiring and made me want to start my own bonsais. Great stuff! Your Avatar Grove is one of my favourites.
I was just able to watch the second part of your video today. I must say, Mr. Saunders, you are a man of many talents. Excellent second half. NASA needs you.
Hi Nigel. First of all, thanks for sharing it again. Watch your videos is one of my favourites hobbies. You are an inspiration to me so that I'm trying now to share what I'm learning from you with people in my home country.
@@TheBonsaiZone I'm from Brazil, but I'm living in Winnipeg. I started the craziness to grow some tropicals like Barbados Cherry and a Ficus Benjamina, and from here I'm sharing everything with them.
I cant believe your delonix is greening up. That's amazing. The extra day or two mine spent in the post killed off all my leaves. but its still okay. Also its good to see the plant room is taking shape and nearly there. 👍
Thanks nigel. Thanks to you I look at trees and plants differently. Thanks to your content, education, guidance and inspiration - I started Bonsai myself about a year ago. Thank you for another wonderful video.
Nigel! That Avatar grove is amazing, looks exactly like a minute version of a full size grove! I hope you enjoy the delonix- that was the first bonsai I got for Jarhead bonsai to start him on his journey so it’s a very special tree, only fitting that we share one with the one he calls The Godfather of bonsai!
I really like this big potted bonsai. I feel that many little elves will run out of the bushes. The front and the lower levels show the magnificent atmosphere of the mountains. It is indeed the work of the master. The original work is also extraordinary. It shows you are success in all aspects.
@@TheBonsaiZone It will be so nice, I was be hooked on your video because the moss at the first place^^ , I saw a lot of them in the pot, supper love them. looking forward at part 2!!
@@TheBonsaiZone its been high 90s-100s lately, but we got some rain and it's a cool 88 today! I lost some trees in the cross country move. Many others are really liking the new climate though!
Great video Nigel, nice to see the updates on the plantroom the forest and the beautiful flowers. Also amazing show of your other skills at the end...and the music made me want to put my dancing shoes on 😊 Thanks Nigel! 💖👍😊💖
Great tutorial on this magnificent Avatar Forest Grove. Looks like an Old World Forest. Excellent looking trees. Always great forests/groves that you make. Makes you feel like you are in the woods going for a walk.
I’m just as happy or even more than your little rabbits 🐇 under your bonsai after watching the interesting and wonderful video. Just awesome ! Thank you Nigel
You are a man of many unique talents Sir! Forest looks fantastic, plant room coming together well! Great work! Thanks for showing us your Bloomers... Baa haha! You're to far away to slap me. :D
Awesome video Nigel! I would have guessed you worked in the defense and aerospace industry, so I was not surprised to find out what your profession had been. My dad's brother is a retired nuclear physicist who worked at the lab in Los Alamos from the early 1960's until he retired in the late 2000's. Can't wait for more on the pruning of your Avatar Grove! Lisa
Wooow, Nigel your animation is soo detailed and looks amazingly lifelike! Are you sure you haven't been up there yourself? 😁 Congrats, that was brilliant!
Thanks, it took a lot of research and detailed modelling to get the spacecraft accurate! It was definitely a challenge to animate the reflective surfaces!
Plant room looking good. Only a month more before the cold weather in. Great job so far. Bummer that it rained into the plant room. To bad you could not get a big tarp to cover the exposed open roof to keep out the rain till all is repaired. Take a tea break once in a while.
I have two large tarps on the roof, but there is little to attach them to and they are ripping loose. I'm hoping to be working on the roof soon if I can't get anyone to do it. I'll get it done, I have a backup plan, to move the trees into the basement if I can't get it done before the first frost. Yes, sometimes the rainy days are good, it gives me a rest!
Wow. The rendered animations look so realistic! I do Mechanical design with SolidWorks, but not to much rendering. Great Job, and you to just as great a job with Bonsai, now!
hi Nigel..good morning? here it was noon with an unusually hot temperature. while taking a break ... watching how to care for a special bonsai from the master😁
Great tips here Nigel. Really breaks down the analysis and work required for growing group plantings. Congrats on the finishing footage. It is hard to believe that kind of thing can be done without a full team of dedicated engineers! Hopfully you can continue this kind of inspirational work. Maybe as an add-on at your discretion, digital nomad style :)!
Oh, right! I always wondered what you did before! Sounds very interesting. So you changed from product designer to tree designer :) Great animation in the end of the video! I also wondered, if it's maybe possible to make a show online this year. Perhaps let everyone send in a ca. 5 min video with an introduction and a selection of a few trees, then put the videos together to make it a "show". It's maybe a bit difficult, but I thought it might be a nice alternative. I'm looking forward to part 2. Take care!
A virtual show is in the works for the KW Bonsai Society, i'm hoping to get everyone's trees on video. I'll have to shoot the trees outdoors and time is running out for the tropicals! I'm waiting for the club to organize the event.
Hey Nigel. Thanks for sharing. Always kinda wondered. Very cool. Allot of work on the Avatar grove. Definitely going to need a few breaks. I trimmed up 3 plants yesterday. I was going to do a couple today. But my friends had different plans for me. lol
Hi Nigel how are you doing?? How is the world your side? I was desparate to see the progress of the tree soo good to see the tree progress and just beautiful work..... you are a dedicated bonsai artist and enthusiast❤️❤️❤️ have a great day ❣️ ...
Hi Nigel, big fan of your channel. You showed a umbrella cano[y tree, is that a Terminalis Ivorensis or also known as a Madagascar almond. I started one, and it is really doing well now ( growing in the tropics Thailand) Any suggestions on repotting and pruning on this one?
hi Nigel, I love your videos! And I've always been curious about your CG work. May I ask what program you created your apollo video in and what you rendered with? it looks fantastic. I'm still hoping one day that you'll make a video working on a virtual bonsai in speedtree or growfx!
I created the models mainly using Unigraphics, a solid modelling software. I did translate the models to Maya and Blender and did some animation using this software also. I created the models when I was in between jobs over a period of about 5 years total. It was a case of always trying to increase the accuracy and realism. A never ending quest, just like bonsai!
Nigel, I have a question. I prefer Clip and grow and I don't use wire on the branches such as Lingnan penjing. Does that mean that I'm doing penjing and not bonsai?
Wiring bonsai trees goes back a while, but compared to the historical time line of bonsai, it is only about 2 hundred years old compared to bonsai being around for over 2 thousand years. Here is an article that explains the history of bonsai.... kuromatsubonsai.com/a-brief-history-of-bonsai/ Clip and grow is a popular technique used for bonsai by both the Chinese and the Japanese.
So my sisters friends mom gave me a free ginseng vivid and the serrissa is doing well but the serissa has a tray but the bicus does not so will they share humidity??
I just had a thought. Wouldent it be a good idea to use batchroom building methods when making a plant room? In my head that would make the most sence.
Yes, high humidity is a problem and combined with a leaky roof, it will rot out a room quickly! I'm hoping to solve the roof problem with a flat sloped roof and everything inside will get sealed up much better. I'm hoping to get an outside greenhouse going with heat and the plant room will become more of a studio for making videos.
Yes, I have a lot of trees that don't make it, sometimes too much root pruning, sometimes borer insects and the winter cold gets them too. I've only had one winter in 27 years where I didn't loose a single tree! Yes, the design I envision sometimes doesn't work well with the tree, I want to do one thing and the tree wants to do another! The tree always wins and I have to adapt my styling to suit the growth of the tree. Always work with the tree, never against it!
No I will use wire if I feel it is the only solution, or the best solution to fix a perceived problem! I do try and develop the trees without wire, and try to come up with creative or alternate solutions instead. I really dislike wire marks on trees so I try not to use it!
Very cool stuff at the end. Last year we were at Lime Rock Park raceway during the anniversary of the launch. My son brought his little Saturn V rocket to play along with all the other small cars and trains. While he was playing, the track's photographer took a photo of my son. He was flying it around after taking off from my head. The picture was posted on the track's social media site. We were able to contact the photographer, and he said it was his favorite photo of the weekend! Have not kept up with your videos lately. Wow, some crazy plant room improvements going on! My goodness what happened? I thought you recently had a new roof put on. I must have missed the video of you first showing all this damage? Best of luck on this major project.
Yes, I had the first half of the room done last year, the same people started the second and more difficult part of the room this year. I didn't like the work, so I ended up doing it myself. I went from the complex peaked roof that always leaked to a flat sloped roof design. The roof always seem to leak and after many years, it rotted out almost everything. It has been a big project that has taken up half the summer and all of fall! Sounds like a cool picture of your son, I'm enjoying all the space missions lately, can't wait for the 2020 Mars Rover to land!
so i have a shitty harbor freight greenhouse that all the plastic in either broke or turned green any tips on what to do with the frame? dont really want to spend tons on replacing the plastic pieces but dont really know what else to do with it.
Nigel do any of your videos discuss how to create hills in the pot like the one you have your main tree on here? I need to repot a dawn redwood forest and would love to integrate a hilly aspect to the planting but no idea how to start doing this..
I got my answer but definitely will do. It gave me an interesting idea. @Nigel, you might want to check out how Disney faked floating islands at their Avatar theme park. Might be something worth trying in a future iteration. :) PS I also think your Bladerunner one is really cool too.
I use a PC desktop, 5 years ago it was the state of the art! I've done a few upgrades, so it is still really good for graphics. I've used many different modelling software, Maya, Blender AutoCad, but most was done using Unigraphics, a solid modelling package. Thanks the spacecraft are very difficult to animate as much of the materials rely on reflections from the sun and the moon. I think I got as close to realistic as I could get back then as much of this animation was developed up to 7 years ago.
@@TheBonsaiZone I think thats encouraging enough for me to also try.Let us see if we can make it happen.the problem i soe with vinca is that it can't stand too much rain otherwise it likes the tropical climate that we have in delhi.
Not being picky or anything just never heard Rabbit's Foot Acacia called Princess Ear Ring! I may be wrong though, and I suppose it could have many name's! I have quite a few of them! GREAT FOREST+GREAT STUFF! 🤙
Did the lunar module really have red on it? I've only ever seen it in black and white. I assumed those were the actual colors. Neat animation, by the way.
Nice update. Thanks for sharing your background with us. You certainly have enjoyed a varied professional career. WOW! Love the Apollo video at the end. GREAT WORK!
All those years and yet I still love to look at you working on your trees and explaining each step. Keep continuing Nigel, what a great collection you've got Sir!
Allot of things I learn faster with Nigel teaching me. Faster than books. I haven’t bought a book since I found him.👍😁🍻
Thank you very much and Go Bonsai!
Thanks Dan, be sure to check out other peoples work too!
@@TheBonsaiZone GREAT ANIMATION!!! In French, we say, "Ceci explique cela" designing + creation = beautiful bonsai!
When I saw part1 in the title, I felt good. Thanks Nigel.
Thanks, more to come!!!
@@TheBonsaiZone looking forward
Thanks for sharing part of your personal life. Also, that Apollo Clip is amazing!
Thanks Alvaro, I enjoyed making all the Apollo videos, the models were used in a book illustration also!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone : Hi Nigel, would you be able to share a link to the book in case any of us want to purchase? Your work on that was amazing!
Drinking my coffee and watching the video... The best way to start the morning! Καλημέρα from Greece Nigel!
Awesome Anastasios!
Me2!
Starting the morning with a great video! Thanks Nigel!
Thanks Stefan!
My wife and I remember the Apollo missions. We sat here mesmerized by your little graphic production you shared. So lifelike, flawlessly smooth.
Your work experience shows in your work. Whether it's the bonsai trees, the community garden, or the plant room. You're using your knowledge in a quiet, almost humble way.
Keep teaching us, your students.
Thanks R man, glad you liked the animations! The models were rendered and used in a 50th anniversary Apollo 11 book! My dad worked on a small piece for the Lunar Module, so as a kid I got to read all kinds of trade magazines that were just full of Apollo technical stuff! It was a moon landing crazy world back then that involved so many people. I can see that unless you grew up in that era, no one would believe how it was all accomplished.
Your skill as an animator projects the success you now enjoy in the Bonsai Zone ! Well done Nigel.
Thanks Jon, I just wish I had the time and energy to do everything life has to offer!
CG artist here, the video at the end is really well done!
also wanted to say, your channel is very inspiring and made me want to start my own bonsais. Great stuff! Your Avatar Grove is one of my favourites.
I was just able to watch the second part of your video today. I must say, Mr. Saunders, you are a man of many talents. Excellent second half. NASA needs you.
What a nice Video. The hibiscus flowers are particularly beautiful.
Thank you, it really adds some colour to the benches!
Hi Nigel. First of all, thanks for sharing it again. Watch your videos is one of my favourites hobbies. You are an inspiration to me so that I'm trying now to share what I'm learning from you with people in my home country.
Awesome Alvarim! Where are you from?
@@TheBonsaiZone I'm from Brazil, but I'm living in Winnipeg. I started the craziness to grow some tropicals like Barbados Cherry and a Ficus Benjamina, and from here I'm sharing everything with them.
@@alvarimcosta Good to hear Alvarim, I did a lot of set design work for the Winnipeg Royal Theater's production "Grumpy Old Men".... Fun stuff!
Your Apollo 11 work is quite impressive! Hope you do more.
Thanks John, glad you liked it, I'll add some more animation in future videos!
I cant believe your delonix is greening up. That's amazing. The extra day or two mine spent in the post killed off all my leaves. but its still okay. Also its good to see the plant room is taking shape and nearly there. 👍
It seems to be doing well, it is on the watch closely list! I hope your tree recovers and begins to grow, it's great us all having trees from Jared!
Thanks nigel. Thanks to you I look at trees and plants differently. Thanks to your content, education, guidance and inspiration - I started Bonsai myself about a year ago.
Thank you for another wonderful video.
Glad you are enjoying the videos and the hobby!
@@TheBonsaiZone and you are awesome. Again, thank you so much.
Truly magnificent video!
Bonsai & Space, im in heaven.
Thank you for sharing your talents.
Regards, Barry. Aus.
The Avatar Grove is really looking good.
i love where the forest is going and i hope everything with the plant room goes well
Thanks Ben, part 2 will be coming soon!
Awesome forest looking really good! Brilliant space odyssey movie wow!
Thanks, it took about three years to finish the models, lots of rivet counting!
Nigel! That Avatar grove is amazing, looks exactly like a minute version of a full size grove! I hope you enjoy the delonix- that was the first bonsai I got for Jarhead bonsai to start him on his journey so it’s a very special tree, only fitting that we share one with the one he calls The Godfather of bonsai!
I'm going to do a Marines type theme for my Delonix! Thanks Laura, it's amazing how one little thing can change your life!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone- Semper fi, Oorah! @jarheadbonsai will be elated to see that!
Hi Nigel , Very excellent clip for few seconds i was feeling i am flying with space craft Very cute.
Thanks Devendra, glad you enjoyed it!
What a guy. Amazing Nigel 👏
Thanks Cuongster!
Love the ending ... excellent editing work ... thanks
Thank you, it was fun creating and animating the models!
I really like this big potted bonsai. I feel that many little elves will run out of the bushes. The front and the lower levels show the magnificent atmosphere of the mountains. It is indeed the work of the master. The original work is also extraordinary. It shows you are success in all aspects.
Thanks Cherie, I will be doing a lot of creative work with the moss in part 2. It's tall enough to get some moss bushes going!
@@TheBonsaiZone It will be so nice, I was be hooked on your video because the moss at the first place^^ , I saw a lot of them in the pot, supper love them. looking forward at part 2!!
Pretty nice forest Mr. Nigel! And that animation at the end... It looks like a high quality documentary, really cool!
Thanks, sometimes I cringe when I see Hollywood versions of the lunar Module, how can they get so much wrong!
What a great bonsai Nigel! I hope You have a warm autumn ahead.
Me too, I have a lot of work to do!
Beautiful trees and space art! Love everything you do.
Thanks Quinn, hope things are a bit cooler in Texas these days!
@@TheBonsaiZone its been high 90s-100s lately, but we got some rain and it's a cool 88 today! I lost some trees in the cross country move. Many others are really liking the new climate though!
Wonderful animation 😄😄
Thanks Finn!
that is a beautiful forest!
Thanks Ben, stay tuned for part 2!
Cool little animation at the end, well done!
Thanks Oliver, just another side hobby!
Great work Mr, Kubrick
Inspired by the great one and Arthur C Clarke!
Great video Nigel, nice to see the updates on the plantroom the forest and the beautiful flowers. Also amazing show of your other skills at the end...and the music made me want to put my dancing shoes on 😊 Thanks Nigel! 💖👍😊💖
Great tutorial on this magnificent Avatar Forest Grove. Looks like an Old World Forest. Excellent looking trees. Always great forests/groves that you make. Makes you feel like you are in the woods going for a walk.
Thanks Tom, I think once I get all the detail work done to the trees and the landscape, it will look very inviting!
I’m just as happy or even more than your little rabbits 🐇 under your bonsai after watching the interesting and wonderful video. Just awesome ! Thank you Nigel
Thanks Bettina, at least those rabbits don't eat your trees! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone
😂👍
You are awesome!
Thanks!
Glad I could see the premiere :)
Thanks Draven!
Loving that avatar grove, that is a beautiful planting you have going on there Nigel
Thanks, I'm hoping it looks even better after part 2!
Thanks for sharing your background! I'm an app developer in Sweden, watching your videos to relax after work 😎Thanks Nigel!
No problem Albin, glad you are enjoying the videos!
Man that plant room is a project but it’s really looking good. Love watching your videos.
It looks like a better day today, so I'll be back at it! Thanks Tom!
Looks like very tedious but relaxing work. The forest looks fantastic Nigel.
Thanks Alice, it will be interesting to see it after part 2!
Nigel Hi
for me you are an artist the forest is a work of art thank you
Thanks Jo!
You are a man of many unique talents Sir! Forest looks fantastic, plant room coming together well! Great work! Thanks for showing us your Bloomers... Baa haha! You're to far away to slap me. :D
As an illustrator/3d artist I really enjoyed the Odyssey. Good work!
Thanks, it was a good challenge to create the models and animation! I really enjoyed the quest!
I had been wondering what your career was. Sounds like very interesting and artistic work. Thanks for sharing. Great video.
Yes, I have been lucky to have so many enjoyable jobs over the years!
Great video! The Apollo tribute at the end made me remember the Mars soil videos and wondered if anything still lives in that experiment.
Thanks, yes the Aloe planted in the Mars soil is growing really well, just like it was in Earth soil!
Nice job with the animation! You nailed it. Great music selection also.
Thanks Michael, I really enjoyed working on the animations!
Love the Rooster !
Awesome video Nigel! I would have guessed you worked in the defense and aerospace industry, so I was not surprised to find out what your profession had been. My dad's brother is a retired nuclear physicist who worked at the lab in Los Alamos from the early 1960's until he retired in the late 2000's. Can't wait for more on the pruning of your Avatar Grove! Lisa
Thanks Lisa, I've had an enjoyable range of work over my lifetime, I'm always learning!
Really love how your forest is turning out, my favorite indeed!
Thanks Kyle, I can't wait to get back at it for part 2!
Really inspiring forest planting Nigel, good work
Thanks Matthew, I hope it turns out well after part 2!
Wooow, Nigel your animation is soo detailed and looks amazingly lifelike! Are you sure you haven't been up there yourself? 😁 Congrats, that was brilliant!
Thanks, it took a lot of research and detailed modelling to get the spacecraft accurate! It was definitely a challenge to animate the reflective surfaces!
@@TheBonsaiZone Incredible level of accuracy! I wonder if "attention to detail" and "perfectionist" are common traits to most bonsai enthusiasts?!
Plant room looking good. Only a month more before the cold weather in. Great job so far. Bummer that it rained into the plant room. To bad you could not get a big tarp to cover the exposed open roof to keep out the rain till all is repaired. Take a tea break once in a while.
I have two large tarps on the roof, but there is little to attach them to and they are ripping loose. I'm hoping to be working on the roof soon if I can't get anyone to do it. I'll get it done, I have a backup plan, to move the trees into the basement if I can't get it done before the first frost. Yes, sometimes the rainy days are good, it gives me a rest!
Great work on all levels! Those models look amazing. Well done all round :)
Thank you, it was quite a challenge creating accurate models, it took a lot of research and studying photographs!
Great renderings at the end Nigel
Thanks, I think I have some of the most detailed 3D Apollo models out there, I'll have to 3D print them some day!
Wow. The rendered animations look so realistic! I do Mechanical design with SolidWorks, but not to much rendering. Great Job, and you to just as great a job with Bonsai, now!
what a cool idea
Thank you!
Waltzing Apollo
A tune that stays in your head!
hi Nigel..good morning? here it was noon with an unusually hot temperature. while taking a break ... watching how to care for a special bonsai from the master😁
Lots of misting and watering on the hot days!
Great tips here Nigel. Really breaks down the analysis and work required for growing group plantings. Congrats on the finishing footage. It is hard to believe that kind of thing can be done without a full team of dedicated engineers! Hopfully you can continue this kind of inspirational work. Maybe as an add-on at your discretion, digital nomad style :)!
Thanks Peter, I'll include more of my renderings in the future!
Watching in-between my online class
Don't be late!
@@TheBonsaiZone sure😅
Oh, right! I always wondered what you did before! Sounds very interesting. So you changed from product designer to tree designer :) Great animation in the end of the video!
I also wondered, if it's maybe possible to make a show online this year. Perhaps let everyone send in a ca. 5 min video with an introduction and a selection of a few trees, then put the videos together to make it a "show". It's maybe a bit difficult, but I thought it might be a nice alternative.
I'm looking forward to part 2. Take care!
A virtual show is in the works for the KW Bonsai Society, i'm hoping to get everyone's trees on video. I'll have to shoot the trees outdoors and time is running out for the tropicals! I'm waiting for the club to organize the event.
Really good video ! 👍 Your animation is quite something, nice work👌
Thanks J, I was off-roading in the orchard today, really fun and the tires were put to work in the mud!
Hi Nigel. In a forest planting like this one where the trees are grown together for many years, how do you manage the development of the root base(s)?
I separate each tree and root prune them until the surface roots are looking good, then eventually you can repot as a single forest.
Hey Nigel. Thanks for sharing. Always kinda wondered. Very cool. Allot of work on the Avatar grove. Definitely going to need a few breaks. I trimmed up 3 plants yesterday. I was going to do a couple today. But my friends had different plans for me. lol
Awesome Dan, there is always another day!
Hi Nigel how are you doing??
How is the world your side?
I was desparate to see the progress of the tree soo good to see the tree progress and just beautiful work..... you are a dedicated bonsai artist and enthusiast❤️❤️❤️ have a great day ❣️ ...
Wonderful, thanks!
I jumped on and thought I was watching 2001 a Space Odessey. Hal are you there?
Just another day in the Bonsai Zone!
Nice! just in time to watch
Thanks K. Melissa!
Video is very good.
Hi Nigel, big fan of your channel. You showed a umbrella cano[y tree, is that a Terminalis Ivorensis or also known as a Madagascar almond.
I started one, and it is really doing well now ( growing in the tropics Thailand)
Any suggestions on repotting and pruning on this one?
Nice sharing
Thanks Haju Bonsai, more to come!
hi Nigel, I love your videos! And I've always been curious about your CG work. May I ask what program you created your apollo video in and what you rendered with? it looks fantastic. I'm still hoping one day that you'll make a video working on a virtual bonsai in speedtree or growfx!
I created the models mainly using Unigraphics, a solid modelling software. I did translate the models to Maya and Blender and did some animation using this software also. I created the models when I was in between jobs over a period of about 5 years total. It was a case of always trying to increase the accuracy and realism. A never ending quest, just like bonsai!
@@TheBonsaiZone truly dedicated!
Nigel, I have a question. I prefer Clip and grow and I don't use wire on the branches such as Lingnan penjing. Does that mean that I'm doing penjing and not bonsai?
Wiring bonsai trees goes back a while, but compared to the historical time line of bonsai, it is only about 2 hundred years old compared to bonsai being around for over 2 thousand years. Here is an article that explains the history of bonsai....
kuromatsubonsai.com/a-brief-history-of-bonsai/
Clip and grow is a popular technique used for bonsai by both the Chinese and the Japanese.
Hi Nigel, do you happen to know what kind of juniper this is? Im from the Philippines.
Great
Thanks Amit!
@@TheBonsaiZone most welcome
Nigel the yellow hibiscus is SO beutifull
Thank you, I can't wait to get a better tree like structure to it. I'm so glad it survived the first root pruning and top pruning!
So my sisters friends mom gave me a free ginseng vivid and the serrissa is doing well but the serissa has a tray but the bicus does not so will they share humidity??
It’s not vivid it’s vicus
love your channel :)
Where do you go to purchase those really large bonsai pots?
I just had a thought. Wouldent it be a good idea to use batchroom building methods when making a plant room? In my head that would make the most sence.
Yes, high humidity is a problem and combined with a leaky roof, it will rot out a room quickly! I'm hoping to solve the roof problem with a flat sloped roof and everything inside will get sealed up much better. I'm hoping to get an outside greenhouse going with heat and the plant room will become more of a studio for making videos.
@@TheBonsaiZone Wish you the best. Wood root is awfull but you seem to be handy enough ;)
Amazing clip at the end Nigel! With private spaceflight becoming the norm, are you thrilled for what would be the second space race?
Oh yeah! I try and watch all the launches and follow the space programs around the world!
Does ny of ur bonsai go wrong ? Or it died off completely unexpected? Or emmersed as altogether diff. than originally envisioned?
Yes, I have a lot of trees that don't make it, sometimes too much root pruning, sometimes borer insects and the winter cold gets them too. I've only had one winter in 27 years where I didn't loose a single tree!
Yes, the design I envision sometimes doesn't work well with the tree, I want to do one thing and the tree wants to do another! The tree always wins and I have to adapt my styling to suit the growth of the tree. Always work with the tree, never against it!
I have yet to see you use wire on any of your trees. Are you strictly using clip and grow?
No I will use wire if I feel it is the only solution, or the best solution to fix a perceived problem! I do try and develop the trees without wire, and try to come up with creative or alternate solutions instead. I really dislike wire marks on trees so I try not to use it!
Here in Alabama... We have Mimosa growing like weeds... They are every where... That princess ear rings remind me of them
I've been thinking about doing a mimosa but they only live 20 years... But if you are inpatient it matures really fast
I have a Mimosa growing from a seed, so far it is doing well. I think it will make it on the channel this winter.
Very cool stuff at the end. Last year we were at Lime Rock Park raceway during the anniversary of the launch. My son brought his little Saturn V rocket to play along with all the other small cars and trains. While he was playing, the track's photographer took a photo of my son. He was flying it around after taking off from my head. The picture was posted on the track's social media site. We were able to contact the photographer, and he said it was his favorite photo of the weekend!
Have not kept up with your videos lately. Wow, some crazy plant room improvements going on! My goodness what happened? I thought you recently had a new roof put on. I must have missed the video of you first showing all this damage?
Best of luck on this major project.
Yes, I had the first half of the room done last year, the same people started the second and more difficult part of the room this year. I didn't like the work, so I ended up doing it myself. I went from the complex peaked roof that always leaked to a flat sloped roof design. The roof always seem to leak and after many years, it rotted out almost everything. It has been a big project that has taken up half the summer and all of fall!
Sounds like a cool picture of your son, I'm enjoying all the space missions lately, can't wait for the 2020 Mars Rover to land!
Hey Nigel, where the heck do i find your email? I want to send you some seeds from Texas!
Hello Nate, you can email me at....
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
I'll get back to you, it may take a bit of time as I get a high volume of emails!
so i have a shitty harbor freight greenhouse that all the plastic in either broke or turned green any tips on what to do with the frame? dont really want to spend tons on replacing the plastic pieces but dont really know what else to do with it.
bonsai time is just a flat circle
Nigel do any of your videos discuss how to create hills in the pot like the one you have your main tree on here? I need to repot a dawn redwood forest and would love to integrate a hilly aspect to the planting but no idea how to start doing this..
Yes indeed, here is a video....
ua-cam.com/video/T_ifeQSazPo/v-deo.html
Can’t wait to see if the Avatar Grove looks like the planet from Avatar or it’s more of a plant avatar of Nigel...
Stay tuned for part 2!
I got my answer but definitely will do. It gave me an interesting idea. @Nigel, you might want to check out how Disney faked floating islands at their Avatar theme park. Might be something worth trying in a future iteration. :) PS I also think your Bladerunner one is really cool too.
Please make an update video on your Araucaria heterophylla forest
It will be coming before I move the trees inside for winter!
@@TheBonsaiZone 👍❄️
What equipment do you use for the 3d modeling; hardware and software? It looks so real, that's amazing!
I use a PC desktop, 5 years ago it was the state of the art! I've done a few upgrades, so it is still really good for graphics. I've used many different modelling software, Maya, Blender AutoCad, but most was done using Unigraphics, a solid modelling package. Thanks the spacecraft are very difficult to animate as much of the materials rely on reflections from the sun and the moon. I think I got as close to realistic as I could get back then as much of this animation was developed up to 7 years ago.
I have many vinca trees.want to make a forest with them. Do you think its a good idea?
I couldn't find any Vinca or Perrywinkle bonsai on Google images, I'd give it a try and see how it does!
@@TheBonsaiZone I think thats encouraging enough for me to also try.Let us see if we can make it happen.the problem i soe with vinca is that it can't stand too much rain otherwise it likes the tropical climate that we have in delhi.
@@TheBonsaiZone thanks
Not being picky or anything just never heard Rabbit's Foot Acacia called Princess Ear Ring! I may be wrong though, and I suppose it could have many name's! I have quite a few of them! GREAT FOREST+GREAT STUFF! 🤙
Yes, they have many names, I think "Bell Acacia" is a common one! Thanks Richard!
Did the lunar module really have red on it? I've only ever seen it in black and white. I assumed those were the actual colors. Neat animation, by the way.
Yes it had many reddish gold foil panels on it, the colours are as accurate as I can get.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks, for answering.
"The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben might interest the Zone family this winter.
Nigel you should cross-polinate the red & yellow hibiscus to get seeds!
Excellent idea!
They are pretty when they Flower I have a Double Red .ill be doing a repotting next Video. I’m just developing my studio .😀
Really nice, I can't wait to see it. My studio will get a make over one of these days!
Talking about up dates ..... what about your new green house?
I was hoping to put it up this summer, but I needed to work on the plant room instead.
Hi Nigel, what's the name of that little tree you received in the mail?
It is a Delonix regia, it's still looking good so far!
Great vid Nigel, any chance could I get a couple of those princess earrings seeds ;)
Yes, I don't see any seeds inside yet, but I'll keep you updated on the progress. I just hope our season isn't too short for them to develop fully!
Did not know Nigel is an animator too!
I actually went to college and took classical animation, hand drawn, my instructor worked on the original Bambi movie!
@@TheBonsaiZoneThat's great!